I think I've learned my lesson with new drivers

[justinsn95]

I'm not going to go into each instance but suffice to say, I think I've learned my lesson about downloading new drivers as soon as they come out. I think I like to stay about 1 driver behind. I don't care if everything isn't "optimal" cause I've found that often time the new drivers (for me at least) seem to make things worth. The past few major release games that I've played and got the new Nvidia drivers for, the drivers messed things up and I ended up having to revert back just to get my old performance back. For example mass effect 3 came out, then Nvidia released a driver to "help" it play better. Not so much. Anyone else think this?

[hostage67]

It really depends on the driver. Also keep in mind that staying one driver behind still means you hit all the crappy drivers too lol.

It's really an issue of new products, drivers for brand new products (like the 600 series) need a few iterations to work out the issues. With a new product you don't really have much choice, but if you are on the 500 series, then you shouldn't jump on the drivers created for the new 600 series until it's had at least 3 different versions released.

[Nagoshi]

Don't fix the unbroken!

[RA40]

+1 When F@H GPU is humming along fine, I don't mess with it. There is always somebody who will be the beta testers so their comments are good indicators if updating drivers is worthwhile. Just because a new version comes out I don't update.

Reminds me, wife's iPhone indicates that an update is available to 5.01. IDK.

[LordVampyre]

shoot, I cant even get the beta drivers to install. They keep trying to install windows 8 driver on my win7 machine. Talked to nvidia about it they said they had no idea why thats happening.

[Dil-tech]

I pretty much never have a problem... Of course, now that I'm on 3dV, it's going to be in my best interest to stay on top of the latest drivers since they almost always add profiles for games in 3d vision.

Either way, I haven't had a new driver mess up a game in quite some time. At least not on the NVidia side of things.

[BigE4u]

I prefer to use older drivers at first, example... instead of installing the currently new driver available for my gtx460, im using v260.99 and its been working great for me so far.

[LordVampyre]

BigE4u , question for you. Do you update physx to the latest driver or leave it with the 260.99 set? Just wondering

[BigE4u]

I dont update anything afterwards... i just install the 260.99 driver and thats it, nothing more.

[Dil-tech]

Originally Posted by BigE4u

I dont update anything afterwards... i just install the 260.99 driver and thats it, nothing more.

There's been a LOT of performance increases since that driver, even for the 460...

[BigE4u]

Originally Posted by Dil-tech

There's been a LOT of performance increases since that driver, even for the 460...

Im sure thats true.... but i dont bench to see any increase or decrease in performance to say otherwise, i just go by feel.

[Dil-tech]

Originally Posted by BigE4u

Im sure thats true.... but i dont bench to see any increase or decrease in performance to say otherwise, i just go by feel.

Up til I got my 480 there was more than a few cases where the difference was noticeable by eye for my 460 just by driver update.